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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1928
Page
2
By mail in Putnam County eight pounds per year outside Putnam County eight dollars sixty per year Greencastle by carrier ten cents a week weekly edition one dollar fifty per year Advertising rates on application
Betsy Patterson plans to win Captain Bonaparte to her, hoping to force La Vert’s return and vengeance on his snub. The Patterson household prepares for the Napoleon brother's arrival as Betsy schemes with Mary in a Baltimore setting.
George Haldeman, co pilot on the Elder rescue flight, says commercial flying across the Atlantic both ways is practical. He cites navigation instruments and weather data advances, urges a fixed route with emergency fields, and predicts regular service and cargo mail flights soon.
Sixty thousand delegates and visitors gathered at Mooseheart Illinois for the fortieth annual Loyal Order of Moose convention. A program of business sessions and social events for delegates and friends has been arranged. The sessions will run through Thursday.
County Assessor Charles Marshall presented to the State Board of Tax Commissioners showing total automobile value at 469,083 for 3,087 cars and 453,885 in household goods across 4,078 homes. Across two years 1927 and 1928 autos drop to 3,037 with average value 152, milk cows rise to 50, and merchandise stock increases to 147 items.
Mrs Ella Gardner and three grandsons spent Sunday with sister Mrs Mary Wright. Leon Johnson, former Oneea teacher, returns with wife to old township home. will move to new home with John Thomas sale. Amelia Elling visits Terre Haute relatives and returns to Marion Wrights. Elder W E B Dudley of Charleston Illinois to preach at Long Branch next Sunday and evening.
Assistant Secretary of War F T Davison spoke at the Army and Navy Club in Cleveland about instruments aiding safe long flights. He highlighted radio beacons, electric field fixing, and the forthcoming capacity altimeter as key advances while noting fog remains a major enemy and praising rapid progress by American aviators. He cited Lindbergh’s Atlantic crossing as evidence of aviation's maturation and predicted a growing pool of trained civilian pilots for military use.
Putnamville residents traveled to Cloverdale and New Providence for Decoration services. Residents visited relatives in Indianapolis and Center Point. Mrs. Walter Sublett, recently ill, shows improvement. Home Economics Club demonstrated dressing and canning a chicken and shared Purdue course notes. School reunions and family visits linked Bloominton, Reelsville, Harmony and other nearby towns.
An advertisement touts 666 as a remedy for malaria and relief from biliousness headaches and dizziness from temporary constipation. It claims to aid toxin elimination and promotes frequent watery evacuations as a sign of efficacy.
The film follows Bianca Vilma Banky and Tito Ronald Colman in a circus romance set along Mediter ranean towns. Prince Vittorio masquerades incognito, a forged note entices Bianca, a chase ensues, Tito is mistaken for the Prince and declared king, Bianca seeks revenge, and all ends with Bianca and Tito back in the circus.
The Granada theatre screens The Drag Net a Bancroft melodrama about police battling a hijacking gang. Josef von Sternberg directed with machine gun and rifle spectacle to portray the dangers defenders of law face from organized crime.
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